AuthorTopic: Blending tutorials (Read 4066 times)

After wasting too many hours trying to figure out how to blend several exposures in Photoshop I'm ready to give up. Any tutorials or courses that you would recommend, beginner and slightly above level, that deals with blending different exposures, including luminosity masks?Thank you

Thank you. I saw a glimpse of light but much more is to learn.Either way I finally got a 3 exposure blend that looks like a photo (from a certain distance ); the LR HDR is still better but if I figure it out how to keep more contrast in the blended highlight areas I think blending is superior is it keeps more color in the highlights areas and is has much more flexibility with the highlight control (the HDR process tends to blow highlights despite adequate exposure for the highlights in the series).

Check out Jimmy McIntyre. He uses the luminosity masks a lot for his blending techniques.

+1 for sure! This is Jimmy's site - http://www.shutterevolve.com/raya-pro-the-ultimate-digital-blending-workflow-panel-for-photoshop/, and the RayaPro Panel for Photoshop is great, although I haven't had a great deal of experience with it yet. In my opinion, luminosity masks are the way to go for exposure blending. Lots of tutorials there as well, and if you sign up you will receive free tuts on a fairly regular basis. There are of course a lot of tuts online for this sort of work, but I believe this might be the best approach. At least worth a good look.

Gary

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I have used Tony Kuyper's panels for a few years now and love them. His tutorials, some by Sean Bagshaw, are very informative. They can be found here. I also read a couple books: The Hidden Power of Blend Modes by Scott Valentine and Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Features by Matt Kloskowski. Both are helpful and emphasize different facets of blending, which is really a subset of the MK book.

Oh boy oh boy how did it look great and fresh to see a 4:3 ratio video! So much more content, tighter to the topic and no problems with "Where the person is?" when eye doesn't wander around the video like today 16:9. Those are as well well made tutorials for the basic but core features of the digital image editing.

Oh boy oh boy how did it look great and fresh to see a 4:3 ratio video! So much more content, tighter to the topic and no problems with "Where the person is?" when eye doesn't wander around the video like today 16:9. Those are as well well made tutorials for the basic but core features of the digital image editing.

Interesting point and well put. Thank-you. I must say that a single person is far easier to frame in 4:3. Maybe something to consider once more.Video has become much like the stills world in that the ratio to be used is pretty much at the creator's discretion.

And I cannot resist: most technique tutorials are to be found on LuLa—even if they are 10 to 15 years old!